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I'm running Armbian buster on an Orange Pi PC plus single board computer. In Armbian Stretch I used to be able to use the analogue output in stereo mode so I could use this sbc as a music player, but after upgrading to Buster pavucontrol only gives me the following option for analogue sound output (the other Built-in audio source is HDMI audio wich works fine in stereo mode but I'm not using): I would highly appreciate if someone could help me fix this issue. I have already tried reinstalling pulseaudio and copying the configuration files from the previous Stretch installation, but didn't have any luck with that.

I've installed Armbian on my brand new Odroid N2. I realise it still is WIP, but almost everything works great. There is just one issue, which prevents me from setting it up the way I want. I use my eMMC card to boot the system. I've also added a larger A1 SD card for application data. However, after a reboot the SD card isn't recognized. There isn't even a message about it in dmesg log. But when, after booting, I remove the SD card and insert it, all of the sudden it's detected and mounted. Does anyone know how I kan make this happen at boot, so I don't need to physically access the device in order to use it after a reboot?

Hi, I have 5 cubieboards 1. I want to give to my employees, so i decided to install desktop ambian installed on nand (neither sata nor sd card). Q) Why not installed on sata and sd card? Ans) firstly the work is into excel only (data entry work). Secondly i dont want to give more space because they start downloading songs, game, videos, torrent and movies.So get slow speed of internet . Thirdly save money to buy sd cards and sata hdd. My questions are:- 1) Where i get the old desktop image file to install it into nand? 2) I have this file armbian_5.25_cubieboard_ubuntu_xenial_default_3.4.113_desktop.7z. I find out in my …

Hi, I was building a new image for my win and noticed this: https://github.com/cilynx/rtl88x2BU_WiFi_linux_v5.3.1_27678.20180430_COEX20180427-5959 Deprecation notice. This repo is deprecated and a newer version of the driver is available at https://github.com/cilynx/rtl88x2bu Not sure if it's worth switching over. Thanks TB

Hello, I have been trying for a few weeks to get this LCD dsiplay (Store Wiki) to work with the NanoPi Neo Air. The display driver required is apparently the ST7789V. I was able to get the pair to work using this image supplied by FriendlyArm. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CAKS1BNGk6vbAsPy5HmeGdO4FPZkvksz However, the OS introduces other issues to my setup and I don't want to depart from our beloved Armbian. at last I know the hardware working and wired correctly. I think I need a custom kernel, but I'm not sure. This thread mentioned the display I am using and talked about building a custom kernel. I got the build env up ran a kernel b…

So I just got my Orange Pi Prime board today and I tried the Ubuntu Bionic desktop image on it. (Armbian 20.02.3 Bionic current 5.4.18 desktop) Things didn't go like I expected... When I got into the desktop, all I saw was a missing taskbar, a white background (instead of a grey one) with a penguin on it. However, all the items on the taskbar worked normally. I thought that wasn't much until I tried to open Chromium, the whole window was white and I couldn't interact with it. I couldn't open the terminal either (clicking on its entry in the menu didn't launch it) I was shocked as I thought something was wrong with my board. So I told myself …

Hi all, I had a need to install the latest version of Postgres possible across my various boards ( Nanopi4 v1 and v2 and a raspberry pi ) the only way I could find to do this, is, compile from source, I came across this howto written for the Ras Pi but it works perfectly for the other boards Here is the link https://blog.rustprooflabs.com/2019/07/postgresql-postgis-install-from-source-raspberry-pi

I have an Odroid N2 connected to my TV via HDMI, 1920x1080. This works with the Ubuntu 18.04 Mate OS. In order to not block my TV for hours making it useless to my family, I would like to use my PC monitor instead (DVI/VGA, resolution 1680x1050). There are two entries in the file boot.ini regarding the resolution and interface. Currently it is set to the default (1920x1080, HDMI). Is it required to change both values to 1680x1050 and DVI or is it just sufficient to change the resolution ? Of course, I'll loose the sound. The result, however, is a headless server running a Nextcloud instance at home, so sound doe…

Hi. I bought some time ago a OPi One and a OPi PC. Yesterday i tried to setup them with armbian without success until I switched images from one to another and...it worked. I think that the download page for each should be fixed ( 5.4.20 image ). Made me crazy as a beginner until I figured out, tried different micro sd cards, different power supplies... Sorry for my english. Many thanks for developers who makes something stable for this boards.

I realised, that my OrangePI Plus 2E doing the logrotate of /var/log.hdd and not /var/log dir I'm using: root@orangepiplus2e:~# lsb_release -a Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Release: 10 Codename: buster root@orangepiplus2e:~# uname -r 5.3.13-sunxi In my dir /etc/logrotate.d/ I realised that in every file standing: /var/log.hdd/.... as a path for logrotate even if I change to /var/log/... everytime when I restart my box. Now if I understand correctly the ram part is named: /var/log/... what can I see from: root@orangepiplus2e:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev …

Not posting everything I've tried, just wanted to ask a question of people experienced with the H3. Does it really support slave I2S in the mainline kernel? I've seen it posted in multiple forums that it does, and the datasheet and user manual says it does, but I can not get it working. Has anyone seen this work in person? I had to hack up the sun4i-i2s.c driver around mclk / bclk generation to make it happy just to even try it, and confirmed that all register settings look good. But the DMA just doesn't seem to transfer data when in clock slave mode. It doesn't seem like any cpu using sun4i-i2s should work in clock slave mode.

After installation, /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades is empty. What is the proper origins to automatically install at least security patches?

Looks like an expired key on http://repo.aptly.info/dists/nightly/InRelease EXPKEYSIG ED75B5A4483DA07C Andrey Smirnov <me@smira.ru> Harry

I want to do some debugging in the Orange Pi Lite 2 and it requires the ability to output the kernel log to the serial console. I am using an Arduino as a TTL-to-USB serial converter (shorting the Reset and GND pins) with the TX pin from the OPi Lite 2 UART header connected to RX on the Arduino (Digital pin 0), the RX pin from OPi connected to Arduino's TX (Digital pin 1), and Ground to Ground. I tried to enable the serial console by enabling all the UART overlays in armbian-config (ruart, uart1, uart2, uart3), setting the "console" environment variable to "ttyS0,115200", setting the "loglevel" variable to "7" and disabling the login on ttyS0 by executing the …

I am using armbian with Orange Pi Pc. I am using Chromium, Netsurf browser. Both these browsers can display chinese characters without problem. However, w3m is unable to display chinese fonts. Is there any solution for this issue? (I think this is not a w3m issue, as i can display chinese fonts via w3m in puppy linux, ubuntu etc in other machines)

hi: I have old allwinner H2/H3 boards which work very stable with armbian jessie. although I can still get debian jessie packages, I found armbian jessie packages are gone from apt.armbian.com. is there any place I can sync these armbian jessie packages? thanks a lot for your help!!

Hello, Armbian devs, I have customized a kernel for an existing Armbian system. I wish I can replace the kernel on the system directly without going throught Armbian build system. According to what Martinayotte told me, there are 3 symbolic link to kernel image, dtbs, and uInitrd actually to boot. While I have done first 2, and I know that I have to do "mkimage" to generate a u-boot compatible uinitrd for sure. But... How can I produce the original initramfs, first? I trace the log of Armbian build system and found out it's generated by update-iniramfs command. But the environment is wiped out after it's done. I'm not sur…

I would like to ask you for help with quotaon.service. I am struggling with it on my nanopi neo2 with armbian. ● quotaon.service - Enable File System Quotas Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/quotaon.service; static; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2020-03-17 20:00:48 CET; 59min ago Docs: man:quotaon(8) Process: 425 ExecStart=/sbin/quotaon -aug (code=exited, status=4) Main PID: 425 (code=exited, status=4) Mar 17 20:00:48 openmediavault quotaon[425]: quotaon: Quota format not supported in kernel. Mar 17 20:00:48 openmediavault quotaon[425]: quotaon: using /srv/dev-disk-by-label-HGST7K10001TB/aquota.user on /dev/…

Hello I have problem with quality of internal A20 tv decoder because output is interlaced and not useful for my purpose. I tried to port tvp5150 driver to sunxi CSI but only get green screen. Do you offer analogue chip with driver for A20 and Linux 3.4? How can I fix the tvp5150 problem and completly port to sunxi CSI? thanks device.zip

Hello, I am trying to use my espressobin board which currently runs Bionic with Hauppauge USB DVB-T tuner. It seems the default kernel does not have a module for it. How do I build and use it? Can I build the module on the same device or should I use another machine for that? Kind regards Andrius

Hey folks, I know I should rather post in the OMV forums, but those are in maintenance until next week, maybe someone here uses OMV on a HCx. I flashed the Armbian minimal image, booted, SSHd into it, ran updates, ran the OMV install script and rebooted. Now I still can SSH into the HC1, but the there is no OMV interface running for the browser. During the OMV installation it complained something about something like openmediavault-flashmedia or something but apart from that finished successfully as far as I can tell. Here's the output in the console windows as far as I can scroll back: Spoiler - directory mask = 0700 - …

Hi, My ODROID-HC2 has just arrived and I flashed a SDCard with a fresh Armbian Sketcher fot it. Did the initial configuration, with apt-upgrade and then opened Armbian-config and selected to install OpenmediaVault (the only other things installed are SAMBA and Softether). The installation started whiteout any problem, but I got some errors the it tried to install openmediavault extras package. Since all logs were vanished after the install stopped, I cannot post here. But when I try to install again, I get this errors: If I try to do an apt Upgrade I receive the following error: alexantao@NAS:~$ sudo apt up…

Do i need a new kernel or something because if i plug in my wifi Adapter it says no firmware

I have one problem a bit hard to explain. I had a monitor with VGA, and that was working with my Orange Pi Plus 2e, but I had to change the monitor to DVI and the screen doesn't work anymore. I can't see anything. even if I try to run with my television (32'') i can see the screen when it's loading the armbian (the commands), but when it tries to open the GUI I cannot see anymore. I want to cancel the autologin to GUI to change the size to use the command line to change the screen size, but I have no idea how to do it, I didn't find anyway to do that. Anyone has any idea?

Hello, Amrbian devs, Thank you for the efforts first. I'm fiddling with some of SBC including PineH64, Rock Pi4... Sometimes, I have to provide a new kernel or add modules. So after the kernel modules are installed. How can I edit boot loader to start it. I discover /boot/boot.cmd and boot.scr contains a line "DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE" So how can I start another kernel image? Is the init ramdisk is required? Thank you.

At 19:54:55 kernel crash happens. That for some reason forces system to change time to Aug 24 1978. systemd reacts to that situation strangely, which puts system under unresponsive state, like infinite loop, potentially causing 100% cpu occupation (this is guess now) The printouts "Aug 24 07:45:10 ptc_lab_collab3_node17 systemd[20635]: Time has been changed" follows many times per second until node is rebooted manually. The kernel version: 4.19.50-sunxi #5.89 SMP Fri Jun 14 01:50:58 EDT 2019 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux Aug 10 19:45:01 ptc_lab_collab3_node17 CRON[32019]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root Aug 10 19:45:01 ptc_lab_co…

I been running my own images with great success thanks to rock solid build environment but one thing that catches me by surprise every now and then is that updating the system can also overwrite my custom kernel, which is is far from ideal. Up until now I been issuing an apt hold command for the packages but I was thinking maybe there is a better way. Because even with the hold in place if I don't pay close attention and do an apt dist-upgrade for example they will still be replaced despite the hold. Is there a better way to prevent my kernels from being updated by the stock kernel? Cheers!

Hello. I need to boot armbian without logs and start my application. I rebuilt and configured uboot and create splash screen with plymouth, so i have no any logs on screen until os boots. I use autologin by NODM, but after splash screen login string appears for a second. Can i disable this output? And the next question: how can i start my gui application without starting desktop?

Hello, I wish to share my research on getting OpenGL to work on Mali GPU. I realize Armbian focuses on server images, but I suppose many people would be interested nevertheless. I have a Banana Pi Pro and an Orange Pi PC, which both have a compatible GPU. Perhaps it will work on other boards as well. Here are the commands I used to get OpenGL to work. 1. Install: # install GLX Gears, mesa GL and GLU libraries apt-get -y install mesa-utils # install development tools apt-get -y install build-essential automake pkg-config libtool ca-certificates git cmake subversion # install re…

Hi! I installed libhybris on my armbian 19.11.5 (kernel 5.5.0) to use mali user space drivers from android. After done, I have verified that my system can not run armhf, so not calling libhybris libEGL.so. I already ran apt --add-architecture armhf; update; install libc6:armhf, but still can not run 32-bit armhf, why?

Hello, I'm actually working on the implementation of the MAX9860 Mono Audio Voice Codec in the devicetree. TheTLV320AIC3204 audio codec works fine and the operating system (Linux embedded) can see it with the command "aplay -l". So in the kernel, i have activated the MAX9860 audio codec, however, i don't know how to declare it in the device tree next to my TLV codec. So i have tried something like this in my i2c node: max9860: max9860@10 { compatible = "maxim,max9860"; reg = <0x10>; clocks = <&max9860_clock>; clock-names = "mclk"; supply-av = <&reg_aud_avdd>; su…

Hello Everyone! I cannot get Gstreamer to use video acceleration on my ROC-RK3328-CC (Libre Renegade) rockchip-gstreamer from Rockchip's github page just wont let me compile the vpudec plugin I have tried both stretch and buster with 4.4 legacy kernel (currently on buster), but I seem to be missing one peice. Here's what I do: -Install a current Armbian Renegade Legacy image, and install all the tools necessary to compile everything. -Git Clone and compile: Gstreamer, plugins-base, plugins-good, plugins-bad, plugins-ugly, plugins-libav -Git Clone and compile: libmali, mpp, rockchip-gstreamer, rockchip-gstreamer-extra during mpp compilation…

Hi all, I can't find any documentation (i prob just don't know where to look), so just a quick question: I have a Mi Box S, and i can run Armbian fine on it, it uses "booti ${kernel_addr_r} ${ramdisk_addr_r} ${fdt_addr_r}" to load the kernel images, i'm assuming they are all unsigned. But i would also like to run unsigned app images (openElec/emuElec/etc) which use "bootm <kernel_addr>" but those return an error: aml log : Sig Check 1467 So my question is are you guys doing any "magic" to get it to load, or does "booti" not do a signature check where as "bootm" does? Thanks.

Hey. I have a beer-brewing machine which has software running on an olimex A13-SOM board, that has a capacitive touch panel attached to it. The company (Brewie) did'nt survive, but I really like the machine, and the potential it has. The board is running a very slimmed down linux system, so it's a bit difficult to sniff stuff out, and expand on it - so I want to install a more recent linux system on it, and try making new software for it as a shared project with other people using this machine. I managed to make a functional image using github.com/olimex/build I'm building it using: ./compile.sh BRANCH=next BOARD=olimex-som-a13 KERNEL_ONLY=no KERNEL_C…

Hello. I need kernel 4.15.0-88 on Orangepi PC. I used "apt-get install linux-generic" to install kernel 4.15.0-88. After reboot Orangepi does not boot. What is wrong?

Hello! How to show boot.bmp instead U-Boot log? Default Armbian inage only show ERROR that bmp is 8 bit but must be 32 bit. What wrong?

I have a small group of Orangepi R2's that I'm setting up as remote snort monitors. It's my first experience with Armbian, and Orangepi and I'm very impressed. I have an odd issue that is puzzling, not of practical importance to what I'm doing, but annoying none the less. The set up I'm running is based on the main Armbian buster "Armbian_20.02.0-rc1_Orangepi-r1_buster_current_5.4.14. Linux probe1 5.4.14-sunxi #rc1 SMP Sat Jan 25 15:19:01 CET 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux I've substantially modified that to use systemd-networkd, systemd-resolved and systemd-timesyncd. My issue is that I have a dummy interfac…

How to change font / view size in qbitorrent. The menu items are very small. In the settings under Appearance no effect on the font size in qbittorrent. $ hostnamectl Static hostname: Icon name: computer Machine ID: 4147 Boot ID: 129d Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Kernel: Linux 5.4.20-rockchip64 Architecture: arm64 $ uname -a Linux RockHomeServer 5.4.20-rockchip64 #20.02.1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Feb 17 04:45:00 CET 2020 aarch64 GNU/Linux Thank you very much!

Hello Everyone! What is the kernel config option that I need to set to enable the VPU driver? Background: I'm using the most current RK3328 RENEGADE armbian image (debian non-desktop) on my ROC-RK3328-CC (Libre Renegade). I've compiled a brand new kernel with the armbian build tool. first, I cloned and compiled gstreamer and it's plugins from Github. Everything works fine but no video acceleration... So then I clone, compile, and install libmali, mpp, gstreamer-rockchip and gstreamer-rockchip-extra, and although the new pluggins are now available to gstreamer (specifically mppvideodec), whenever I try to use mppvideodec, I recieve the following e…

Hello all, I am developing a video streaming device that streams video to youtube. For this, I am using NanoPi NEO Core2 as an SBC. It runs on "Base on UbuntuCore, Kernel: Linux-4.14" os version as mentioned on http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_NEO_Core2 Along with the SBC, I am using its shield to use peripheral ports like USB, ethernet, and debugging port. For capturing video, I am using a Logitech c920 webcam. Here I am facing two issues : 1. Hardware Issue When I connect Logitech C920 camera with NanoPi Neo Core2 via mini shield, it freezes. I am unable to understand whether it is due to the power issue, or is it due …

Hello! I've got unnamed board with Allwinner A20 and FORESEE 8G memory, in completed device with HR215WU1-120 LVDS display. Spoiler It was working on Android 4.0 system, but someone needed to replace android with linux os system. LVDS display was lost when owner put SD card with linaro in slot for the first time. Now we have Linaro 14.04 command line, Spoiler and SD class 10 card with Armbian_20.02.0-rc1_Cubieboard_bionic_current_5.4.14 image, burned with Etcher. So. If power on without SD card - linaro starting in command line. If try to boot …

No matter which image I take (stretch/bionic; Bananapim2/Bananapim2ultra; 5.38/5.69) my Banana Pi M2 Berry with it's Allwinner V40 won't boot correctly. The attached screen stays off and the LED keeps shining red. I used Etcher 1.4.9 portable to copy the image to an 16 GB MicroSD. It's worth mentioning that the Pi and the MicroSD work just fine if I'm running it with another distro, like the 2018-05-24-raspbian-jessie-preview-bpi-m2u-sd-emmc.img from the official website. If I'm using the image Armbian_5.69_Bananapim2ultra_Debian_stretch_next_4.19.13, then I'm able to access the Pi via ssh. Yet, the screen won't work at all. As an interesting side …

This may not be an 'armbian' thing at all, but if not, maybe I'll get a little direction. My first "image" with armbian I downloaded had some 3.4.x kernel on it. After some learning, I was able to get GPIO to work with it. I had some other limitations though. So, I decided to build my own image (buster) so I could customize it. After booting, I GPIO did not work. I explored this, but was unable to to get it to work. I tried a -legacy version (which was 4.x) but also, GPIO did not work. This is my first sunxi experience. So, I'm not sure of the tricks used to get it to work. Either it's broken, or there are patches/config for the kernel …

Hi, I have checked that the GPIO Interruptions are very slow. If i receive a wave in a GPIO with IRQ edge enable, for a frequency of 100Hz, all IRQs detected are right (100 interruptions received) However if i increase the frequency of the wave up to 500Hz, i can't detect all the IRQs received, (50 interruptions received more or less) Well, i think maybe, the solution is to change the following kernel parameter: CONFIG_HZ=1000 instead CONFIG_HZ=250 (default) What do you think ?? Is there other solution?? Thanks a lot in advance

Hello! First post so apologies for any naivete. I have a USB wifi adapter connected to my la frite (it was the only distro that supported it out the box so thank you). On each boot it seems like the USB is getting a different device address and therefore I have to open nmtui and connect to my wifi all over again, to the point where I have 10+ stored connections to the same wifi in my network managers saved connections. At first I thought I could solve the problem by reversing the Persistent Interface Names settings on boot so that it would be wlan0 and I could automate the connection on startup but that hasn't worked for me either. I've run out of ideas a…

Greetings, I set up an an armbian build environment, and went through the initial build, which took some time. Subsequent rebuilds took a couple hours as well, and I discovered I could 'skip' rebuilding the kernel unless I wanted to build it. Now, I'm testing customize-image.sh, things aren't always going where I want. so, I troubleshoot, make changes, but now my minimum build time is 30-40 minutes. Is there something else I can do to speed up the process?

Hello. I use Retrorange Pi on Orange pi pc+ and the kernel includes a uinput module for implementing console utility management from the gamepad. Unfortunately, in this 5.3.0-dev-rc8 core, the CPU temperature information does not work. I switched kernel to 5.4.20-current via armbian-config. In this kernel, the cpu temp readings work, but unfortunately, there is no uinput in the modules. Can I somehow build this module separately for 5.4.20-current without recompiling the entire kernel? Or is it possible for respected developers to re-enable the module in future kernel releases? With best regards, Sergey

Greetings Docs say Yet I need to use Ubuntu 18.04 to compile. I'm not understanding - - - - Ubuntu 18.04 isn't Debian testing (11 or bullseye), it isn't Debian stable (10 or buster) - - - - so why do the docs say I can compile on Debian?

Hello , I'm new to Armbian, I'm trying to create an SD image for an Olimex A13 Som card (https://www.olimex.com/Products/SOM/A13/A13-SOM-512/) + A13 Som WIfi (https: //www.olimex.com/Products/SOM/A13/A13-SOM-WIFI/open-source-hardware). After successfully executing the build and transferring the image to SD with Etcher, the boot starts correctly but hangs on Starting Kernel ... Do you have any idea how to solve the problem? Thanks in advance!

Hello, I try to run this image: Armbian_20.02.0-rc0_Bananapir2_buster_legacy_4.19.97_minimal.img on Sinovoip Banana PI R2 (from SD card) and on 1-st boot i'm stuck: Tx DQM dly bit4 = 0x0 DRAMC_DQODLY1=79A98889h DRAMC_DQODLY2=8988B99Ah DRAMC_DQODLY3=2203123h DRAMC_DQODLY4=31103014h Tx DQ dly bit4 = 0x0 Tx DQS dly = 0x8949 Tx DQS dly bit4 = 0x0 TX Byte0: DQ - 16, DQS - 17. win_sum= 32 TX Byte1: DQ - 21, DQS - 13. win_sum= 33 TX Byte2: DQ - 8, DQS - 22. win_sum= 29 TX Byte3: DQ - 8, DQS - 22. win_sum= 29 DRAMC calibration takes 651397386 CPU cycles [EMI] DRAMC calibration passed [MEM] complex R/W mem test pass 0:dram_rank_size:80000000 [Dram_Buffer]…

/var/log goes full every 15 min when i remove.Please see attachment download-2020.2.18_20.11.35-root-(projectok.com).tar.gz

Hello, I would like to get RT Kernel, but i am not able to do it. I have downloaded the patch file: patch-5.4.19-rt11.patch And I copy this file in the following folder: build/userpatches/kernel/sunxi-current Now, I create the following file: build/userpatches/lib.config And i add this sentence: KERNELBRANCH='tag:v5.4.19' and I run compile.sh But it doesn't work. I think there are 2 different errors: one for compiling for an specific kernel version, and the other one for loading the RT patch file. Error 1: fatal: Couldn't find remote ref tags/v5.4.19 error: pathspec 'F…

Greetings, I built armbian with these instructions (https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/#using-our-automated-build-system) I am now wondering: How can I provide specific packages, files, or config to my built image? For instance: I'd like to have the gpio utilities installed, other deb packages I might want, wireless firmware, and even wireless config. Thanks!

hi all, does anyone have postgresql running on a Nanopi M4 v2 under bionic beaver ? I have it working on buster but can't get it to install on bionic

Hi guys, I am trying to connect my orangePi internet with ethernet cable but nothing works I tried every way but still I have no internet So please help me. Here are the solutions I tried: 1) I open the share settings from Wifi properties and connect the pi to Pc with normal ethernet cable 2)Bridge the ethernet and wifi 3) installed samba in orange pi and I have nothing OrangePi's ethernet leds are running but no internet I have one last solution , buying a wifi module and connect to wifi with it but I have no idea about wifi modules. Sorry for my english.

I have tried downloading the Armbian Buster release for the BananaPi M3 but it only seems to have a EXT4 partition and no FAT BOOT partition. How am I meant to prepare an SD Card ? How do I go about getting the BOOT Partition or kernel and rdinit files for a boot partition ?

For reason I can't explain here , I had to run a video player at Non-X window OS ( Armbian_5.96_Aml-g12_Ubuntu_bionic_default_5.3.0_server ) at a S905X tv-box. I tried to play a mp4 video ( H.264 + AAC ) at the video player ( mpv ) with drm driver. The quality is just so so. Is there any other driver recommended ? Did Amlogic provide a linux video driver which can hard-decode h.264 ？ Regards !

I have a problem with a script python that is running in the background, this script needs to run all the time without stopping, but the script freezes or stops without error, when I change for another card, it works for a few days and then the same thing happens, however the debian system continues to work perfectly, only the background script stops working, I already debugged the code and it has no problem making it stop. my sdcard is MicroDrive class 10, 8Gb. what could be causing this problem?

Hi. Overlayroot can't be used on Odroid C1 due to the kernel has no corresponding module. Are there any chances to get it recompiled in your repository with the following module? /lib/modules/5.1.15-odroidc1/kernel/fs/overlayfs/overlay.ko

Hi! I powered off my tvbox directy by power cord, and after boot can not enter in Xorg anymore, the screen go to black like successful Xorg start and back to console (each try delay 1s - slow blinking) and repeat this process ininterruptly. Maybe related to lightdm? How to start in console mode to try to fix it? This already happen with two different tv boxes (with buster and now with bullseye).

Hello. I saw all topics about armbian on Q8, Q88 tablets, but some of them are dead with no success, some say, that it is working somehow for someone. I understand, that armbian more tended to be for boards, but come on! There is a huge pile of tablets, that uses same processors, memory, wifi and other chips, and there is a sun5i-a13-q8-tablet.dtb in /boot/dtb of an image of armbian. So, I compiled custom Armbian image using olinuxinoA13 configuration as there wasn't any for q8-tablet. Wrote or burned it with USB Image Writer (I'm on Linux Mint 19 Cinamon) on SD card, mounted it, edited ArmbianEnv.txt line disp_mode=800x480p60. Put SD in tablet, pushed on button... s…

I’m using the Pine64 2GB Kickstarter’s board with the official LCD, running Armbian 5.25 Pine64 Debian (Jessie) 3.10.104 image. Everything works fine, display in terminal only and touch screen with the desktop. Now I would like to upgrade to the latest stable Armbian version (which on download page is 5.83). However now I can’t enable the LCD, although the download page says: It was a couple years back, I don’t remember exactly, but seems that was the same way I’ve used to enable the screen in old 5.25 Armbian. I’m no Linux kernel developer, but searching through the forum on the topic I found several mentions of “kernel recompile” - is there no other ways …

Hi guys, How can i use Tp-link Tl-WN725N wifi adapter on orangePi Pc I am using armbian

Hey folks, The tl;dr version of my question is "is there a way to stop tmpfs from being used for things like /tmp, /run, etc.?" Essentially I have an OPi Zero running PiAware and graphs1090. Graphs1090 is throwing a bunch of images into a folder under /run, which is causing the amount of free space to drop below 16M. As a result, systemctl refuses to restart some services because there isn't enough free space on /run. So...is there a way to disable the use of tmpfs for folders like /run or /tmp? Honestly, I'd rather just take the hit to the SD card rather have to deal with issues like this.

Hi everybody ! Is it possible to transfer from emmc to sd card? That is, as in the nand-sata-install script, only in the opposite direction.

I am using 3 low light HD USB cameras (details on the link below) for my application. https://bluerobotics.com/store/sensors-sonars-cameras/cameras/cam-usb-low-light-r1/ The application requires me to have all 3 cameras live streaming simultaneously on 3 different local host ports of a PC. For the controller, I am using a Nanopi M4 (it is connected to my laptop by a 20m long, CAT-6 ethernet cable) I am using the motion package to work the cameras I have been facing the following issues- 1. When all 3 cameras are connected to controller and stream is checked, at any given time I am able to see the livestream of only 2 of the streams. On restarting motion, any one…

Hi! I want to still have original Android in my S905X3 and use some space to Armbian root, but boot can still by SD card. I cant see partitions by fdisk, gdisk or parted. Partitions are managed in DTB?! Thanks.

Are there any commands to show information that could tell me about the level of power consumption ? E.g.: energy saving state of CPU or the like ? On the SBC i am using, i think the power consumption is lower when running the same setup with kernel 5.4, and higher with legacy kernel 4.4. Alas, 5.4 has other problems, so i want to try to figure out what settings/features reduce power consumption in 5.4 and maybe i can then configure them equally in 4.4. This is rockpi4a rockchip3399. If there is nothing generic enough about the topic, i can ask on the forum for that chip.

Target board is Orange Pi PC+ based on H3 the <ump/ump.h> file is needed which must contains in linux-headers-XXX-sunxi with version match to 20.02.0-rc1 however aptitude search linux-h | grep sunxi outputs linux-headers-current-sunxi 19.11.3 <none> Linux kernel headers for 5.3.9-sunxi on armhf linux-headers-legacy-sunxi 19.11.3 <none> Linux kernel headers for 4.19.84-sunxi on armhf linux-headers-next-sunxi 5.92 <none> Linux kernel headers for 4.19.62-sunxi on armhf And there is no version for 5.4.14 (20.02.0)

I'm trying to get VPU acceleration on Manjaro ARM and I'm having trouble figuring out how Armbian is able to leverage the VPU with Hantro still incomplete. I know it uses RKMPP but I don't know which driver or patches I need to enable it in the Kernel and DTS. Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.

Hi all, Yesterday I make big mistake I executed command I have 8GB card, so all data are not lost. Is any way to recovery data? Thanks

Getting below error: whereas board is shown connected

A problem I'm having with my fresh install of Armbian Bionic on my Libre Renegade board is that I cannot use the user login due to read-only file system warnings. Root login does allow more freedom, but comes with its own drawbacks. Prior to writing Armbian to the chip from Windows, I formatted the chip exFAT. I've reinstalled Armbian mutiple times on multiple chips, but even the recommended A1 SD doesn't work. I'm not sure where the problem lies. Is this strictly a hardware issue? Is there any non-extensive ways to workaround or fix the problem in the terminal? I'm not too familiar with Linux terminology, but can figure out common terms. I can supply more in…

Hi. Instruction and dts on https://github.com/hbars/BPI-M2-Ultra-Berry-i2c-enable

Hi i would like to use the eDP Display on my nanopit4. How can i compile the Kernel to support the edp?

This is on a 4GB NanoPi M4 v1. There are a number of files matching the spec '/etc/ssh/ssh_host_*' but they are all zero bytes, which renders the machine inaccessible by ssh. I'm pretty sure this is happening on every install, I've been troubleshooting and reinstalled several times from the latest image and ssh was not working at any time.

Don't get me wrong i use SAMBA because i have not played so much with NFS. I agree with you, i have my weekly battle VS. SAMBA when my NAS reboot, the remote shares do not stay in the same mounted folder after reboot. It is in (OMV). It could be you had some nice tips? It was because of that i asked ;-) I have read alot of articles about NFS. So only if you had the golden trick or something you use in the daily? Thanks.

I now have a RockPi4a running Armbian_20.02.0-rc1_Rockpi-4b_bionic_legacy_4.4.210_desktop from eMMC. Now i wanted to see how i most easily can experiment with newer distributions, such as 5.x. The radxa debian images for rockpi4 use a lot of partitions and it was quite easy to reformat the eMMC to have two system partitions, install different linux versions into them, and then configure the boot script to allow booting from different partitions/kernels via serial console and there selecting the desired kernel. In Armbian, it seems booting uses the boot.cmd script to boot the kernel. Is there a simple example of the boot script with a m…

Hello, I'm coming to ask for help because I'm having a problem with plex and my external hard drive. Everything works well except that I do not see the folders at the folders of my external hard drive with the Plex interface, this is really frustrating especially since I can go to my hard drive via the file manager. I think this is a legal problem but I cannot resolve it. Could you help me ? Thanks in advance =)

Hi, I have sort of a strange problem. 1.) lxc buster container built on armbian rockpro64 compiled OpenCPN built and installed the deb package without any issues. 2.) tried to install the package and faced wxWidget issues though I added the wxWidgets ppa and did a apt install *wxwidgets* BUT got this error: ----------------------------------- root@rockpro64:~/postinstall/opencpn/OpenCPN/build# cmake ../ -- cmake version: 3.13.4 -- *** Build Architecture is arm64 -- Setting C++11 standard via cmake standard mechanism -- Default compiler options: -- CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS: -- CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG: -g …

Hello guys, I am currently in the middle of setting up my GlusterFS cluster on 3x Odroid HC2s. I am currently using the standard Ubuntu images but hit some walls with them. The worst wall is that the Samba package does not ship with gluster library (glusterfs.so) and I can't auto manage Samba shares via GlusterFS. Does anyone know whether support in Armbian for Gluster, Samba and CTDB is better? Would you recommend to try it? Cheers Sherry

Hi, I installed RetrOrangePi ( which is built on Armbian ) on my Orange Pi Zero 2 Plus H3. I have used display from car monitor via TV out. I successfully set resolution, but I found out that the display has better viewing angles when it's rotated 180°. Is there any way how to rotate screen?

Hello! I try to configure the OpenVPN server on OrangePi Lite using tap configuration but not work, after set bridge and reboot...OrangePi not connect to internet. It's possible create OpenVPN server in bridge mode using only wlan0? And if it's impossible can I use USB-Ethernet adaptor for make a bridge? Thanks in advanced

Hi guys, I am currently working on backing up my armbian installation. Following situation: boot: sd card file system: nfs root backing up the file system is not an issue, there I am using a rsync logic that transfers only changed files, which works great. The problem is with the boot files. In case of sd card failure I need an image that I can quickly restore to a new sd card, without the whole file system, as it is on nfs root and backed up differently. Now my question is: what is the best way to create an image file with only the boot logic? On Raspbian this is simple, as the boot device is a fat32 partition, but on …

Hello! Really appreciating armbian having good notes on how to get up and running on a specific device. Thanks! I have these wifi cards, RTL8821AE. If I `apt install hostapd` I can get hostapd to start up. If I use `hostapd-realtek` it doesn't. Some of the armbian docs say look for and try '/usr/sbin/hostapd-rt', but I can't figure out how to get that; Maybe that note is out of date? It starts up, but doesn't seem to work. I have wlp0s0 in a bridge with the LAN ports. It seems like I'm able to associate to my SSID, but nothing's going across the bridge. No DHCP is happening, etc. I'm just trying to make a access point rig…

Hi use a Nano Pi Neo with the Debian Server Image and and want to try install Pi-Hole but while the Installation Process i get a Error. The Script cant add a Password to the New User that Pi-Hole require (Yes i am use Root) i get a Stunnel4 error ?!?! Thanks for your Help

Hi, I've seen the question asked many times but there is no working solution for this( ? ) Hardware: Odroid N2 500GB Samsung USB3.1 T5 SSD What i've done: Downloaded the Odroid N2 image Put in on the SSD It boots and it installs without problems. but with a problem and that it's NOT resizing the partition like it does when you install on a SD-card. I edited the boot.ini and the fstab to use /dev/sda1. I even edited the /usr/lib/armbian/armbian-resize-filesystem to hardcode /dev/sda1 into the file When i run sudo systemctl start armbian-resize-filesystem nothing happens. Well if i added an extra partition it's gone after that. Lu…

Rock Pi S @%^ Mb Ram no WiFi not starting with Armbian. Got this as output Spoiler Resetting CPU ... INFO: PSCI Power Domain Map: INFO: Domain Node : Level 2, parent_node -1, State ON (0x0) INFO: Domain Node : Level 1, parent_node 0, State ON (0x0) INFO: Domain Node : Level 0, parent_node 0, State ON (0x0) INFO: Domain Node : Level 0, parent_node 0, State ON (0x0) INFO: CPU Node : MPID 0x0, parent_node 1, State ON (0x0) INFO: CPU Node : MPID 0xffffffffffffffff, parent_node 1, State OFF (0x2) INFO: CPU Node : MPID 0xffffffffffffffff, parent_node 1, State OFF (0x2) INFO: CPU Node : MPID 0xffffffffffffffff, …

Which is fastest and how much faster? The h3 or a64? Thank you.

Hi, My Armbian Debian Buster install has the package "armbian-firmware" installed at version 19.11.3.346. Since a few days/weeks, the package is no longer available on the APT repository. I couldn't find a reference in the documentation/forum about its removal, so I don't know if its absence is intentional or due to a bug. If intentional, I should probably install the regular linux-firmware packages from Debian instead? Or will the armbian-firmware package return? # cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list deb https://apt.armbian.com buster main buster-utils # apt clean # apt update Hit:1 http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian buster InRelease Hi…

I have removed these packages: iw wireless-regdb rfkill hostapd (no wifi) ntfs-3g btrfs-progs (filesystems I don't use) stress iozone3 (benchmarks) qrencode (huh?!) alsa-utils (no sound) ifenslave (not needed I think) sunxi-tools (different processor) command-not-found (don't want it) And then apt autoremove to remove corresponding libraries etc.

Hello, I have a problem with my Banana Pi Pro... I installed Armbian bionic from this site… https://www.armbian.com/banana-pi-pro/ In addition to other programs that I have installed and which all work, I would like to install piVCCU. I try this according to the instructions from this page ... https://github.com/alexreinert/piVCCU/blob/master/docs/setup/armbian.md Everything works until I get to Step 5. At the end of the installation comes the message... DKMS: add completed. Error! Your kernel headers for kernel 5.4.14-sunxi cannot be found. Please install the linux-headers-5.4.14-sunxi package, or use the --kernels…

Hi guys, does anyone have an experience with running webtorrent-hybrid or webtorren-cli (https://www.npmjs.com/package/webtorrent-cli) on Olinuxino MICRO or similar? I have installed npm package, started seeding, but instant.io doesn detect my peer. The same example works on desktop without an issue. Can anyone try and confirm if it is working or not on A20 boards?

Hi, I'm working with a nanopi m4 for the first time I would appreciate help on how to hook up this board to my laptop I want to install FriendlyDesktop on my laptop that has ubuntu installed in it I'm referring to this - http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_M4#Get_Started If I put the nanopi m4 zip file onto the sd card and insert it into the board, will I be able to see the Friendlydesktop start up on my laptop screen and use my laptop keyboard and touchpad as keyboard and mouse for the nanopi? And my application requires me to work 2 cameras together on a single nanopi m4 board Has anyone worked with 2 cameras at once on this board? How is the …

Hello, I'm new to Armbian. I've recently tried Olimex's image for a13 (https://github.com/OLIMEX/build). I saw (and read) on armbian's guide that there's the possibility to customize images build. I need to add two specific drivers (smsc95xx for my eth interface and uvcvideo for my webcam) to kernel. I can find their sources in build\cache\sources\linux-mainline\linux-5.0.y\drivers, but they are not listed in various "modules.order" files (ok, so that's why my devices doesn't get loaded). If I want to add these modules to kernel the only way is to create a patch for "modules.order" in userpatches\kernel (if it's the right directory), or there's a …

I need the install php > 7.0 for Nextcloud 16.07. I have installed php 7.4 successfull but I don't get php7.4-gd installed php7.4-gd : Depends: libgd3 (>= 2.1.1) but it is not going to be installed When I try to install libgd3 I'm getting these errors libgd3 : Depends: libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4) but it is not installable Depends: libwebp5 but it is not installable How get I solved this issue ??

Hello, guys. I am really enjoying Armbian on PBP. I have tried upgrading to Ubuntu 19.10 and it runs fine, just have one problem on apt update (also when I change the sources.list to disco) I found that changing some script file or modifying some symlink should solve it, but I am not sure how to do that. Spoiler Fetched 29.6 MB in 13s (2,325 kB/s) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/cnf-update-db", line 26, in <module> col.create(db) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/CommandNotFound/db/creator.py", line 93, in create self._fill_commands(con) File "/usr/lib/p…

I'm a newbie to the NanoPi M4 and haven't been able to find helpful material regarding my doubts Any help would be appreciated 1. How do I configure the GPIO pins to function as a UART4 TX and RX pins? 2. The level signals of UART4 are of 3V but the supply to the board is 5V. All standard buck converters are of 5V to 3.3V so how would I go about that?

Hi all, I am wanting to setup a mail server on my Helios4. I went through the armbian-config approach and saw that there is an item under softy called ISPConfig which relates to mail servers etc. Are there any instructions/documentation around setting up a mail server in this manner? Or is there a better option? Thanks in advance

What is the correct way to upgrade from Stretch to Buster? Can I just follow the ordinary Debian upgrade guide, or are there special considerations I should be aware of? Do I need to do a clean install?